I know it's been forever since I updated, but I haven't given up on this story yet. I have no excuse for not updating, I give a few, but why keep you from the chapter any longer?

Three Moons of Alicidale

Tempest of Lies

"Do you think they'll be okay?" Sakura asked.

"The Light card said she'd take them somewhere safe." Li said.

"I wonder if Tomoyo is okay."

"You can ask Mihara and Yamazaki." Li suggested.

Sakura just nodded. She began to feel the silence around her. Being alone with Li was starting to make her nervous. She glanced over and saw him staring at her. She held her head down and blushed. Love...did she...does she...

The Light card returned and Sakura quickly went back into the castle. "I want to find Naoko." she exclaimed.

"We'll lead the way." Yamazuki said.

"This place is really complicated. Every few minutes the hallways and stairways start to move." Chiharu began. "The castle is probably different than it was when it started."

"Actually, the castle itself isn't alive at all. Create moves everything according to Image Ala's will. It's directly linked to her mind." Yamazaki explained.

"Really?" Sakura asked.

"Yes." Chiharu said.

"Well, actually, only one of us is telling the truth." Yamazaki clarified.

"You shouldn't worry about it." Chiharu said.

Yamazaki stood by a staircase on the left, Chiharu on the right. "This is the one you want to take." she said.

"This one leads to Naoko." He said.

"Trust me, guys, this way."

"She's trying to trick you because you trust her. You'll be attacked if you go that way."

Chiharu laughed. "Don't believe him."

"I say we go with Yamazaki." Li announced.

"But Chiharu told the truth last time." Sakura said.

"Why don't you use a card again?" Chiharu suggested.

"She's trying to trick you again." Yamazaki told them.

"What should we do?" Sakura asked.

"I guess we just pick one." Li said.

"Well, since Chiharu told the truth last time, we'll go to the right." Sakura decided. She ran up the stairs and Li followed close behind her. Yamazaki put the Libra in Chiharu's hand and they gazed up at the stairs, not following.

Sakura and Li arrived at the top and began to walk forward. Sakura creamed as she was pulled into a sand vertex. Li, from the side of the sand, grabbed Sakura's hand trying to keep from being pulled further in. Above them they heard the crack of thunder and flashes of lightning. Li pulled Sakura out of the sand and held her close. She instinctively held on to him, as well.

"It's the storm card." Li said over the thunder and swirling winds as he looked up at the gathering dark and restless clouds.

"And the sand card." Sakura added. She was glancing at the sand that nearly sucked her in.

Heavy rain began to fall and a tornado touched down in the sand, sucking it up and creating a sand twister.

Sakura and Li held on to one another tighter. "We have to run." Li said, trying to help Sakura up.

"I can't, the wind is too strong." Sakura replied.

The sand twister was slowly coming towards them all. All around them was thunder and heavy rain. "You have to try!" Li said.

Sakura stood up, not daring to relent her hold. The two of them tried to run back to the stairs, which seemed to have moved since they entered. At the end of the hall they saw Chiharu and Yamazaki.

The sand card seperated itself from the storm and fired at Li and Sakura. It hit behind them and at there sides, firing in front of them once they began to get closer to Chiharu and Yamazaki.

Sakura covered her eyes with one arm, the other still around Li. Li urned his head, wrapping himself around Sakura protectively. The two were pulled into the air and the cards were blown away from Sakura.

"Oh, no!" Sakur cried, reaching for them.

Chiharu and Yamazaki also covered their eyes and the libra was torn from them. Sakura was able to grab hold of six of her twelve cards and was surprised to find herself also holding the libra. Li was still holding onto her so they wouldn't be separated. She screamed at the force of the wind and the lightning that struck near them.

"I won't let you go!" Li yelled.

The two of them were thrown into the middle of the sand vortex and pulled in. Sakura held tightly to the card; Li held tightly to her.

The mirror card, in the form of princess Ala, was still with Toya. Her long reddish hair was lose around her. She was in a light blue dress with a red trim at the bottom of the dress, sleeves, and around the neck line. She was sitting at a table before him. In front of Toya was a glass of water and some food, but the mirror card was too worried to eat.

"So, tell me more about this Alicidale place." Toya said.

"Well, it's beautiful." She said. "Lots of flowers, different ones than here. The sea particularly sparkles, the sky is wonderfully clear. No pollution."

"No wonder you want to go back."

"Not just that. I was taken from there. I miss it there. We all do. All my friends, I mean."

"Lazeal, tell me. What, exactly, does my sister have to do with this?" Toya looked her straight in the eyes.

She returned the gaze at first, then lowered her head. "I'll tell you." she said meekly. "I'll tell you everything."

Yamazaki and Chiharu stood in a room with Kero. Chiharu spoke. "Sorry, but they have the libra."

"Did they find out your pattern?" Kero asked.

"No." Yamazaki answered.

"Keep doing as you were when you see them, then. Don't worry about it."

Yamazaki nodded.

"Does this abide with Image Ala's wishes?" Chiharu questioned.

Kero never answered.

Sakura was on the ground with Li, his arms still around her. They were both unconscious. Sakura's hand was out and near it were the six cards that she still had. Light, Sword, Arrow, Fight, Little, and Illusion.